Virologic Tools for Monitoring Patients With Chronic Hepatitis Bþ

[Guest guest]

Clinical Care Options (info@...)

Virologic Tools for Monitoring Patients With Chronic Hepatitis B

This Treatment Update reviews the importance of HBV DNA in making on-treatment

decisions in hepatitis B management. Review new clinical data in an educational

module, test your ability to make treatment decisions in an Interactive Case

Challenge, and track your patients' treatment progress on therapy with an

Interactive Tool. To access this Treatment Update, click here.

http://clinicaloptions.com/Hepatitis/Treatment%20Updates/HBV%20Tools.aspx

CME/CE-Certified Educational Module

Virologic Monitoring in Hepatitis B: Tools for Determining Treatment Candidacy

and Response Kris V. Kowdley, MD, FACP, FACG, FASGE, AGAF, discusses the

importance of virologic tools, with a focus on HBV DNA monitoring, for deciding

when to treat and evaluating on-treatment response to oral HBV agents. To review

this educational module, click here.

CME/CE-Certified Interactive Case Challenge

Management of a 52-Year-Old HBeAg-Positive, Treatment-Naive Female Seeking

Hepatitis B Therapy G. Gish, MD, reviews the importance of HBV DNA in

determining treatment candidacy and making on-treatment decisions in hepatitis B

management in this Interactive Case Challenge. Make your own treatment decisions

and compare your answers with Dr. Gish's recommendations. To begin, click here.

Interactive Tool

Click to Access

http://clinicaloptions.com/Hepatitis/Treatment%20Updates/HBV%20Tools.aspx#{97D38\

BA9-F932-41A8-B651-DCFB840E4DE8}

HBV DNA Monitoring for Oral Agents This Interactive Tool tracks a patient’s

progress on therapy by calculating and graphically representing changes in HBV

DNA over time. It also generates key patient evaluation dates and interprets the

patient's progress over time by highlighting response patterns and tailoring

responses according to treatment history. The tool has the capability to save

patient data only on the end-user’s computer, making it available for editing

upon subsequent uses. To access this tool,

click here.

http://clinicaloptions.com/Hepatitis/Treatment%20Updates/HBV%20Tools.aspx#{97D38\

BA9-F932-41A8-B651-DCFB840E4DE8}

This Treatment Update is located online at:

http://clinicaloptions.com/Hepatitis/Treatment%20Updates/HBV%20Tools.aspx

Physicians:

Jointly sponsored by Postgraduate Institute for Medicine and Clinical Care

Options, LLC.

Nurses:

Nursing contact hours provided through the cosponsorship of Postgraduate

Institute for Medicine and Clinical Care Options, LLC. Postgraduate Institute

for Medicine is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the

American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

Virologic Monitoring in Hepatitis B: Tools for Determining Treatment Candidacy

and Response

Release date: October 31, 2007

Expiration date: October 30, 2008

Management of a 52-Year-Old HBeAg-Positive, Treatment-Naive Female Seeking

Hepatitis B Therapy

Release date: October 24, 2007

Expiration date: October 23, 2008

Supported by an unrestricted educational grant from Bristol-Myers Squibb.

_________________________________________________________________

Watch “Cause Effect,” a show about real people making a real difference.

http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/MTV/?source=text_watchcause